58. Kubler and Soria, Art and Architecture , p. 71.

59. Toussaint, Colonial Art , pp. 275-277.

60. The full story of Hispanic-American architecture lies beyond the scope of this book; what concerns us, however, are those church structures built specifically for other remote native populations in the Americas that provide parallels with the churches built later in New Mexico.

61. Wethey, Colonial Architecture , p. 18. The churches that were supposedly built on the model of the Gesú in Rome actually displayed a greater affinity for Gothic and Renaissance prototypes. "The truth is that the Jesuit order never officially adopted a specific type of floorplan in Peru or anywhere else" (p. 18).

62. Kubler, Mexican Architecture , pp. 105-106. Kubler confirmed that "the vast official documentation for the colony contains almost no reference to drawings prepared in Spain for American use" (p. 105).

63. For the definitive presentation and analysis of the atrio and the development of related Mexican religious architecture, see McAndrew, The Open-Air Churches ; and Toussaint, Colonial Art , pp. 25-31, 57.